The cure for the common dinner! The Dinnertime Ninja fights the evils of boring and uninspired meals, the temptations of fast food, and navigates the common pitfalls of striving to feed your family healthy meals while maintaining your sanity.

Spread goat cheese on sliced pear, drizzle a touch of honey. Once prosciutto is cooled put on sliced pear and serve.

It's tough to improve upon perfection, but there are some variations you could make to accommodate your preferences or availability of ingredients. Blue cheese or Gorgonzola baked onto crostini, then topped with prosciutto, pear and honey is also absolutely deish!

Crostini: slice a baguette into 1/2 inch slices, spread out laying flat on baking sheet, lightly drizzle with olive oil, then top with crumbles of cheese and bake until lightly toasted.

For more of a first course than appetizer, make it into a salad! I love arugula for greens with this, then break the prosciutto crisps into bits, add thinly sliced pear, and top with crumbled cheese (blue cheese, gorgonzola, or goat cheese).

Keep it simple when it comes to dressing: fresh lemon juice, extra virgin olive oil, honey, salt, pepper. Wisk or shake then drizzle on top! Walnuts add some more crunch and flavor if you are so inclined.

Your friends will definitely be impressed with this sophisticated yet simple treat!

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Disclaimer

I'm a self-proclaimed ninja. I did not go to any sort of secret ninja training camp. I am also not a nutritionist, nor a professional chef. So please don't take what I say as medical advice, or culinary expertise. But feel free to imagine me in the kitchen in full ninja garb, jumping to dodge a remote control car and landing perfectly balanced on one hand just in time to stir the risotto. I'm ok with that.

What I am, is a real person with a life and a job and a family and twenty extra pounds that showed up when I hit 33. And a person with enough education and sense that I feel obligated to feed my family healthy meals and teach them healthy habits. I also realize I need to do that for myself.

But if you have kids, you know that often times your own needs get shoved aside in effort to meet those of all the short people around you. So in the struggle to do what is right for my and my family's well-being, and in the meantime actually enjoy preparing and eating those meals, I have decided to go ninja on dinner!